Movie Information

1989

R (18+)

Cantonese with English Subtitles

105 Minutes

Cast & Crew

The Movie

Jeff (Chow Yun Fat)- a professional killer planning to go straight - accidentally blinds beautiful nightclub singer Jenny (Sally Yeh) during a gangland hit.

Guilt stricken, he resolves to finance an operation to restore her sight by taking one last job, the elimination of triad boss Tony Weng , a contract put out by Weng’s power hungry nephew, Johnny. The killing takes place during flamboyant Dragon Boat festivities ; two cops, Lee (Danny Lee) and his partner Randy (Kenneth Tsang) carry out the investigation .

Lee gradually uncovers a tender relationship between Jeff and Jenny and becomes strangely attracted to the professional assassin.

Both are Jeff and Lee are men out of time, opposite faces of a moral code, with little place in Hong Kong’s venal criminal underworld. The ruthless Johnny decides to have Jeff rubbed out rather than pay him , and cop and killer are drawn together for a final confrontation with an army of kill crazy gunmen.

In an abandoned church , amidst flames, bullets and weeping Christian icons, divided by law, united by a bond neither fully understands, they face their fate.